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Samuel Corum / Getty The Strange Elegance of Joe Manchin’s Voter-ID Deal
Voter-ID laws are noxious. But they don’t suppress turnout that much.
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Print Collector / Getty / The Atlantic We Already Got Rid of the Filibuster Once Before
The House used to have a filibuster too. And when legislators got rid of it, the result was a more democratic, productive institution.
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Getty / The Atlantic The New Debate Rules Are a Mistake
The Commission on Presidential Debates is choosing the appearance of civility over an honest, open display of the two men’s characters.
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Hulton Archive / Heritage Images / Getty / … The U.S. Is Facing the Possibility of a Truly Illegitimate Election
But Americans can still fight to protect democracy this year and beyond.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Senate Filibuster Is Another Monument to White Supremacy
Tear it down.
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Library of Congress / The Atlantic Congress Needs to Be Way, Way Bigger
Members of the House simply cannot adequately respond to the needs of hundreds of thousands of people.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Democrats Are Answering the Wrong Questions
By focusing on bizarre hypotheticals, candidates keep falling into the traps we’ve seen before.
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Associated Press How America’s First Women Voters Lost the Franchise
The president’s claim that voters “put on a different shirt, come in, and vote again” echoed an odd 19th-century episode.
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Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP Donna Brazile's Tell-All Is Troubling For the Wrong Reasons
Instead of contributing to our understanding of what happened in 2016, Hacks muddies the waters.
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Andrew Harnik / AP How Donald Trump Broke the Al Smith Dinner
It isn’t the only democratic institution that finds itself in danger.
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Mike Segar / Reuters The Sketchy Ethics of Donald Trump Jr.’s Speech
The borrowed lines included in his keynote address at the Republican National Convention are a sign of what the next four years could look like.
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